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Cross my heart but close my eyes
Can’t commit and can't deny
Love intangible is still
What I seek and always will
Cross my heart but close my eyes
Can’t take the past with you
When you’re growing old
Can’t buy your way to love with gold
Absence inside of me
and I’ve lost sense of who I should be
When I feel you, it puts me at ease
So I’m searching deep in my dreams
I will ring you up late, please answer my call
Maybe I should go outside
Wonder round a place I know
A part of me that probably died
Holding on to things that I
Should of give up years ago
Can’t take the past with you
When you’re growing old
Can’t buy your way to love with gold
Absence inside of me
and I’ve no sense of who I should be
When I see you grow like the weeds
I get nervous about what it means
I will ring you up late
Please answer my call say
You can carry this weight
Please answer my call
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2. |
The Trail Went Cold
03:11
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No man is as tall as his tales
Time warps the truth
The sun is setting as I sail
To a place in my youth
Ringing in my ears, that null and void
Building up for years every strategy deployed got old
and then the trail went cold
I got old and then the trail went cold
No man is as tall as his tales
Messianic at times
Like a train that’s gone off the rails
I leave a wreckage behind
Like an amnesiac, don’t know where I’m bound
Cannot make it back, just a stranger in town who got lost
and still just hanging around
I got lost and still just hanging around
I could scream it or stay silent
It gets messed up, yeah it’s violent
In my mind that new horizon
Could just kill me for a while
Ringing in my ears, that null and void
Building up for years every strategy deployed got old
and then the trail went cold
I got old and then the trail went cold
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Feels like a habit, I gotta have it
Don’t try to understand
It gets me twisted, lost for a minute
Stood at the taxi stand
Where I’ll go ain’t really where I wanna be
But your touch has got its claws right into me
I’m jumping in with a headfirst dive
It begins with a last goodbye
Because I’ve wasted so much time
Spent in my mind with dreams of you
Your faded red lipstick, the nights we were singing
Still ring around my head
Left unsaid and now I wonder if you knew
How I’ve changed after that summer I went through
I’m jumping in with a headfirst dive
It begins with a last goodbye
Because I’ve wasted so much time
Spent in my mind with dreams of you
Can’t catch a breath, there’s no way out
All your bridges have burned down
You thought you could get higher
But you’re out on the wire again
I’m jumping in with a headfirst dive
It begins with a last goodbye
Because I’ve wasted so much time
Spent in my mind with dreams of you
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Wasted another night in the same town
Can’t change all the time and this come down was inevitable
You know I love you still
I wanna lead you astray
Forget what the others say
Let’s play with black magic
There’s so much more to this
And you know that I will hold out for you
And you know that I will hold out
Seems like that we were sold on a let down
Forgot that the world is our playground
But I don’t feel that now that you’ve been hanging round
Let me take you for a ride
The cities they light up the sky
Let’s play with black magic
There’s so much more to this
And you know that I will hold out for you
And you know that I will hold out
Grab your black metal tee and turn off the TV
Leaving with the sun and by morning we’re gone
We’re just having fun, ain’t hurting no one
And you know that I will hold out for you
And you know that I will hold out
Grab your black metal tee and turn off the TV
Leaving with the sun and by morning we’re gone
We’re just having fun, ain’t hurting no one
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The concrete cracks I can’t relax or rest my mind
On repeat I see the streets we’d waste our time
Hours won’t pass, fill my glass and lay around
Guess I’m a mess now you’re never coming round
I though there was something more
We left in a heatwave summer sun
You drive me insane but make it fun
It’s like we disappear, everything is clear
and then crash when the night is done
As we walk back into the sun
You’ve been hiding in the corners of my mind
You built me up, we made a splash - washed by the tide
Innocence breaks and bends, then it leaves
We can try and reach that high we’re thick as thieves
We left in a heatwave summer sun
You drive me insane but make it fun
It’s like we disappear, everything is clear
and then crash when the night is done
As we walk back into the sun
As we walk back into the sun
And I was wondering if you wanted some more?
‘cause if you call me up, I’ll be right outside your door
We can make it last - make it habitual
I’m never going back, It’s a new ritual
We left in a heatwave summer sun
You drive me insane but make it fun
We left in a heatwave summer sun
You drive me insane but make it fun
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Cold morning, you know I’ve gotta work so hard
You know I’ve got a funny feeling about where you are
Cold morning, those days they feel like years ago
Watching as the rally cars slip off the road
And we wait for the summer, but we brace for the rain
And we try to remember, though we try it always fades
And I’m just getting older, know this feeling won’t unwind
I’m fighting against time - it’s always on my mind
Cold morning, I’ve been trying to find the sun
Living under clouds in August weights a tonne
The days dawning and I know you have to leave
Always feel you with me passing through the trees
And we wait for the summer, but we brace for the rain
And we try to remember, though we try it always fades
And I’m just getting older, know this feeling won’t unwind
I’m fighting against time, I’m fighting against time
It’s always on my mind
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Been through the motions made some plans
In changing seasons different bands
My head is filled, my senses dulled until I'm not sure who I am
Been losing sight of what is real, spent years on the Catherine wheel
It might be twisted that I miss it but the hurting made me feel
It's like I'm moving in slow motion
Thought I was running but the walls stay still
Feel like I'm living in a bad dream
Wish I could wake up but I never will
'cause if I can't break away from my past
Then it will always hold me back
There's a place I like to go, reminds me of a plastic rose
It feels so cheap as my thoughts run deep & then I have to make it home
and at this rate I can't attest if I am broken or possessed
'cause I can't stop chasing; steps retraced just lead me back to where I left
It's like I'm moving in slow motion
Thought I was running but the walls stay still
Feel like I'm living in a bad dream
Wish I could wake up but I never will
'cause if I can't break away from my past
Then it will always hold me back
It's like I'm moving in slow motion all the time
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8. |
Halfway Down The Street
04:01
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Rush home to fix up right
Head out the hand I bite
Ain’t getting any younger
Neither is the night
Dip calls the whole way home
My saviours bought and sold
Know there is something deeper
I don’t dare to know
I’m running away
It’s leading me home
I get scared of the unknown
Tried to be alone
and maybe you’re right
It’s never enough
You know I will call you up
I’m sure that you’ll be …
Walking out the door
Halfway down the street
Drinking at the bars where we used to meet
Always seem so far, far away from me
Guess we’re disconnected, bittersweet
Lost face and lost myself
Ran outta money at the front desk hotel
Your patience wearing thin
Your eyes all set on me
God loves the sinner, but just hates the sin
Give me a minute with the state I’m living in
Is there a part of this that you’re gonna miss?
Maybe you’re right
It’s never enough
You know I will call you up
I’m sure that you’ll be …
Walking out the door
Halfway down the street
Drinking at the bars where we used to meet
Always seem so far, far away from me
Guess we’re disconnected bittersweet
And we turn into some memory
A nostalgia, like a deity
That I lift up when I’m feeling down
Got a hex now, a bad energy
It just flares up when I fall asleep
And you turn up
Hanging round my dreams
I’m running away
It’s leading me home
I get scared of the unknown
Tried to be alone
And maybe you’re right
It’s never enough
You know I will call you up
I’m sure that you’ll be walking out the door
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Drive You Home
02:49
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The streets lights are on, a November sky
Where you see your breath, but can’t see a way out
We watched the fire and the fireworks
But all I can think is the ambulances at work
and maybe it’s too late this time, you’d rather be alone
‘cause I will drive you out your mind and then I’ll drive you home
We walked through the streets to get to the car
and you crack a line about how it’s too far
The distance we’ve come, could it be done?
My nerves are shot, I guess that you’re holding the gun
I watch you try avoid my eyes and stare into your phone
‘cause I will drive you out your mind and then I’ll drive you home
And as the fire slowly dies we’re into the unknown
‘cause I will drive you out your mind and then I’ll drive you home
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Long Way Home
04:01
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She seems set on watching the morning sun
I just feel like hanging round
I guess you figured out that I ain’t much fun
Always gotta drag me out
Driving from my place to the city
Years passing through me now
You say something like ‘baby ain’t this pretty’
As I roll the window down
We’re just watching sun hit the skyline
You’re pulling at my sleeve
I’m hoping maybe to bide time please
Give up this dream, be a better man
Sometimes I feel more like a boy
Could put my faith in Jesus and be alone
I’m so sick of driving the long way home
You say I’m too high in the morning
‘Think of all the money you’ve blown’
I’m so sick of driving the long way home
The sky it starts to bruise, the clouds collide
I'm ready to call it a night
Maybe in the morning it will be clear
Maybe there’s nothing to fear
I don’t feel I know much of nothing
I don’t feel much at all
Tired always thinking of things that passed
On the road I go when I drive too fast
We’re forgetting all of the good times
This isn’t what we need
Whisper to me your dreams
Give up this dream, be a better man
Sometimes I feel more like a boy
Could put my faith in Jesus and be alone
I’m so sick of driving the long way home
You say I’m too high in the morning
‘Think of all the money you’ve blown’
I’m so sick of driving the long way home
She seems set on watching the morning sun
I’m waiting ’til it’s coming down
Guess you figured that I ain’t much fun
Give up this dream, be a better man
Sometimes I feel more like a boy
Could put my faith in Jesus and be alone
I’m so sick of driving the long way home
You say I’m too high in the morning
‘Think of all the money you’ve blown’
I’m so sick of driving the long way home
I’m so sick of driving the long way home
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11. |
Half Asleep
03:08
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Woke with a heavy head, my dreams were on a loop
Try blame it on my bed, not all the red drank with you
In the bars we crawled around
and we stayed there until they kicked us out
I probably made a mess
As far as I can tell
My memory’s a haze
But I think I fell in love, in love with you
I think I fell in love, in love with you
Told me where you grew up, far away from the city
You asked me to repeat everything twice
and I know that I sound like I’m half asleep
If I was would you come and lie with me?
I think I fell in love, in love with you
Can you tell that I’m telling the truth?
I think I fell in love, in love with you
I guess we ought to go, there’s nowhere left to be
Just let me grab my coat and we can flee the scene
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Jake Whiskin Leeds, UK
Jake Whiskin is a songwriter from Leeds, UK with reflective and vulnerable lyrics backlit by atmospheric new
americana.
From life in Wortley council houses, young love & black metal tee’s to discovering 70’s songwriters via Armley charity shops, Whiskin’s recollections and explorations are an essential document of adolescence in Yorkshire in the late 90’s and 00’s.
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